campaign trail ahead of the first republican primary debate. florida governor ron desantis hammering away at biden's policies in new hampshire. >> so we need to restore the idea that our economy should benefit people who are working hard, playing by the rules, and really know that our middle class again and to do that on day one i will take all of biden's rules, regulations and executive orders and throw them in the trash can where they belong. >> we'll see. we hear that on wednesday. griff jenkins live in d.c. what is keeping voters up at night. he has the story now. >> good morning. nothing keeps voters up at night like the stress of not being able to make ends meet or pay the bills. with the consumer prices up 16% they are telling us they are feeling the pain everywhere they turn. >> everything is through the roof, you know? you have to be a millionaire to live in d.c. >> i'm middle class and i am concerned about the inflation issues and interest rate hikes. >> inflation raised the cost of a lot of things. more expensive to go out to eat or pick up food at the grocery store. >> it's the economy stupid rings through again in the latest fox polling. 80% of voters say the condition of the economy in bad shape. only 35% of them see their personal financial situation in good or excellent shape. floridian steve redman said it's main issue driving his vote and telling us what he is looking for. >> somebody that knows how to fix the economy. somebody that has been a businessman and not a career politician. somebody that can walk in and say you know what? you know, let's work on this thing together. >> meanwhile alabama grandmother jessica mccabe worried for the economic future of her children and grandchildren. >> this isn't a republican or democratic problem. this is a problem with our government that's lost touch with the american people and they need to actually sit down and talk to us and see what are the problems. >> and you can bet this issue will be front and center at wednesday's debate with president biden vulnerable here, bill. 38% approve of his handling of the economy in the latest polling. >> bill: griff jenkins in d.c. >> dana: james freeman assistant editor of the "wall street journal" editorial page and fox news contributor. the latest poll asks what do you think about the state of nation's economy? not so good 34%. bill and i did quick math. 71% are saying not good or majority of those saying poor. if this is about the economy what can we expect? >> voters don't like inflation. we've been talking about that a lot. the white house wanted to take a bidenomics victory lap because inflation isn't as bad as it was last summer at the peak over 9%. but the problem for consumers is prices are still rising. >> bill: this is so true. >> obviously you look over the total of this era, most americans in real terms inflation adjusted have gotten a pay cut. they aren't happy about it. >> bill: read the other one. >> dana: this one from inflation punishes americans joe biden lies and lies. seems the overall biden strategy here just the lie and lie and lie and figure everyday voters will buy it. huge mistake. every trip to buy milk or fill the tank proves what a disaster bidenomics has been. the housing prices, trying to get into a new house at 8%, food, gas, also in a little bit we talk to somebody about the high cost of childcare. things that are essential if you go to work. >> i think the falsehoods are the reason that -- one of the reasons it's hard for the president to recover. you go back to 2021. the big -- i don't know if you can call it a lie. the massive falsehood the president told. the economy was struggling and needed to revive it. the economy was growing as more than 6% the quarter he took office. he did this massive spending plan which even his old obama administration economic colleagues say is inflation fuel. the economy was fine. he did radical surgery on it. we got the raging inflation. voters haven't forgotten it. >> bill: also this poll 62% disapprove of his handling of inflation compared to 34% who say they approve. we were out to eat friday night and saturday. i know i live in new york, right? it is pricey to live here. i grant you that. but when that bill came, i think all of us was you are kidding me? in some of these cases the vendors -- they are taking advantage of us a little bit here. but in a lot of cases they are just covering their own price. that is a stunning bill to get all over the country when you see that. >> there are a lot of restaurants in new york. if someone could do it better at a lower price they would. they have high costs. employees costs, food costs. i think this is part of the problem with the white house strategy is they are now celebrating three plus% inflation. pre-biden that was considered prices rising too fast. the federal reserve would normally act and want to avoid that. now they are wondering whether to tolerate higher inflation. and i think the message you are giving is the same as voters. they don't want to tolerate it. >> bill: i would add your portions are smaller, right? shrink inflation is real. >> dana: i need them to give me smaller portions. but i do want to ask about the white house communications strategy. they have decided to embrace bidenomics as a term out there complaining people don't understand how good the economy is. every one of their surrogates in the cabinet out there saying don't you understand the economy is so good? and i don't see them pivoting or if they do decide to pivot at what point could they make a difference for next year's election? >> they are running out of time. even some democrats are warning them. the basic strategy is that voters will tolerate all of our crazy ideas on border, crime, all of our racial obsessions because they are going to give the president credit for this economy. and at what point are they going to realize voters are not giving him credit? they have had a pay cut in real terms. prices still rising. i think this is a debate in democratic circles but so far the strategy is just to say bidenomics, embrace it and pretend it's working. >> bill: pretend we shall. thank you, james. james freeman. "wall street journal." thank you. >> they are afraid to charge him. they won't charge him. the case is disappearing. the statute of limitations is running but they are scared to death to charge him. >> bill: there it is. andy mccarthy last hour. hunter biden's lawyer threatened to put president joe biden on the stand in his son's defense. according to "politico" the first son's legal team vowed to put the president on the stand and talked to prosecutors about biden's plea deal. haven't heard this before, aishah. >> it's a stunning report from "politico." it comes from the 32-page letter, a letter written by hunter biden's attorney back in 2022. take a look at this. "politico" reports clark was warning prosecutors that president biden now unquestionably would be a fact witness for the defense in any criminal trial if there were to be a criminal trial, right? what followed, of course, was that wide scale what republicans call sweetheart plea deal that eventually did fall apart. on top of this, bill, it was also revealed over the weekend special counsel david weiss at one point worked with president biden's late son, beau, when he was the attorney general in delaware. that may sew further doubt for republicans that weiss can be unbiased. house oversight chairman james comer is demanding the national archives hand over unredacted records related to then vice president biden and ukraine after they uncovered that biden sent official emails using three different pseudonyms, hunter was copied on some of those emails. >> look, this is obvious that joe biden abused his power as vice president for the sole purpose to protect his son, who was receiving millions of dollars from this corrupt ukrainian energy company and this email ties joe biden and hunter biden into this corruption scheme without a shadow of a doubt. >> things keep getting more and more interesting. the whole of washington is anxiously waiting to see what david weiss does next but what house republicans do next. they're back after labor day weekend and see if they will launch an impeachment inquiry into the president. >> right now it is critical that people in los angeles stay safe and stay home. >> dana: urgent warning as the first tropical storm to hit los angeles in more than 80 years batters southern california. >> bill: republican governors in texas for a firsthand look with efforts to control the growing border crisis as the biden administration goes to court to fight texas on defending the border. >> dana: shoplifting is a problem for more cities coast to coast. is this the new normal? >> growing into an exorbitant issue that we don't know how to get a handle on. no real consequences for their actions. so it is just continuing to expand. the grocery store and the gas station alone are taking a big chunk out of our paychecks. fortunately, you've earned the valuable va home loan benefit. the newday100 va loan lets you borrow up to 100% of your home's value, not just 80%. and with home values near record highs, that could mean a lot of money. let newday turn your home's equity into cash. 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casey stiegel is live in dallas. >> the justice department's lawsuit alleges that those floating barriers out in the rio grande river are actually in violation of river protection laws and that's why the doj wants them out of the water. the feds also argue, in fact, that those giant orange buoys are an illegal structure obstructing u.s. waters. d.o.j. claims because texas did not seek authorization to install the system, it didn't allow time for the feds to consider the potential environmental or safety risks. texas has argued the buoys do not obstruct that part of the rio grande river. therefore the law does not apply. governor greg abbott will host a group of at least four other republican governors today down in eagle pass where the helicopter flyover planned so leaders can see things for themselves. abbott continues to claim the federal government has failed to defend the southern border adding it has a federal constitutional right to defend itself against invasion from non-state actors. more than 183,000 migrant encounters were recorded for the month of july. up from the start of the year when apprehensions topped 157,000 back in january. since october 1st, there have been more than 1.9 million encounters recorded along the southern border. meantime an 18-year-old man has been arrested in houston for allegedly shooting and killing an 11-year-old girl while she was at her home. police say the suspect was in this country illegally. investigators say he was from guatemala and had a sponsor in baton rouge, louisiana. he has now been arrested and is sitting behind bars at this point. we'll keep you posted on what happens down there today. >> dana: casey stiegel in texas. >> bill: retail theft is on the rise in big cities across the country. here is more. flash mob hitting a nordstrom in l.a. 50 people looting 100,000 worth of merchandise. no arrests. let's bring in retired nypd inspector paul mauro. you write in your foxnews.com that the policies on behalf of these counties or cities is all carrot and no stick. >> some reforms started in new york before the george floyd incident. since then it has escalated. i'm not telling you or the viewers anything they haven't seen. how many viral videos have we seen, shoplifting mobs, etc. we are seeing tremendous disorder on the streets. it will become a campaign issue. even if you posit that republicans are weak in the cities. that's not much of a supposition because most of them have democratic mayors. but you have to remember something. the areas around these cities, the suburban areas, so-called soccer moms, they want to go into the city to go a restaurant and go shopping and take kids to a show. there is a feeling. i see it in new york and other cities. they don't want to go. we are getting to the point where there is a received wisdom we have written off our cities. the jewels in the crown. the centers of culture and commerce and the draw for immigrants traditionally. how is it we can write them off? that's where we are. >> dana: let me ask you two questions. is this gang activity or cartel organized? and also, what do they do with the merchandise? >> i think it is organized and i don't have to go very far out on a limb on that. you see the activity online, okay? stolen stuff is only as your ability to fence it. after 2020s summer of love when i think a lot of these groups -- again, right in the article and i should mention i have never had an article blow up the way this one done. >> dana: it's on foxnews.com. >> it dropped friday. i had quite a weekend. the organized groups take the stuff, put it online and learned that in 2020. they realized wow, there is not really much of a stick, as you put it. are you seeing the stuff go out in traditional formats online. as we were discussing earlier you have to say to yourself at some point is law enforcement going to make a concerted effort to interdict this stuff. if they don't do it in the stores, are they going to go at some of these forums, these social media forums and markets to try to get some of the stuff back and shut the groups down. >> bill: maybe the criminals knew they were out there they would think twice. >> that's one solution. i was about to say the other solution is ultimately resides at the ballot box. you are starting to see -- at the end of the article, one of the reasons it hit a nerve, i took a pessimistic tone. i don't see anybody waking up to the fact we're abdicating our responsibility to the citizens and businesses that are the lifeblood of the city. it is getting so bad that you are seeing things like san francisco's mayor finally seeming to wake up to the fact that the city that she was elected to preside over has had enough. when you are losing san francisco, you are in deep trouble. >> bill: they said stay home to the workers. >> federal government said stay home because it is too dangerous. they recalled their -- we will go down 40 prisoner beds in new york city. it will go down by almost half. what will the town look like when it happens? 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>> i think the formal legal word for what has been decided is nuts. as eric pointed out, this could affect children as young as five. remember, we're talking about minors. the question is not just what they are going to do, whether they will let kids identify by another sex but who gets to decide? and it clearly is now saying the parents can't decide, the state is more powerful and the public schools serve the states, not the parents. glenn youngkin won an election on the basis of that issue. as a father of three daughters who have their ears pierced i had to give written consent before they could get their ears pierced in new jersey. now they can go by other pronouns or be on the path to gender transition? you know, the attorney -- the governor talks about hurting transgender students. what about the kids that are too young to make this decision but are genetically mutilated and regret it later? this is a tragedy. i think those decisions should be made by parents, the people who love the kids most. >> bill: the state believes in itself more so than the parents. monmouth county, one of the three districts in consideration here. the judge said the state has demonstrated a reasonable probability of success on its claim that the amended policies, if implemented, will have a desperate impact on the gender non-confirming youth. there is an education expert on the channel last week and she was making the case that the schools in question here don't trust the parents because they believe a small percentage of these students may be susceptible to abuse at home if the parents found out about their sexual identity. then she turned it around, bill and said what if the schools keep this responsibility to themselves and the student harms themselves, right? no matter the age, right, 12, 15, you name it. then the schools are liable. she really put it into a pickle as to what the proper decision would be and ultimately as you just said, the parents brought these kids into this world, you should trust them perhaps. >> well, i think that's always been the policy of the u.s. public schools are accountable to the public. that they are not instruments of the state to override parents, which is what new jersey wants. they want a government system of education that will override parents. the assumption that parents will abuse their kids, even if they don't support changing your sexual identity, is i think is unproved. the same thing with youth to deny the couple and adopt a baby up in massachusetts because of their religion, that they weren't supportive of these kind of issues, there is no evidence that these people will be abusive. parents and kids disagree on a lot of things. their careers, their interests, their friends, all sorts of things. it doesn't mean that the parents then abuse the kids. my belief is parents generally are the people who love their kids most and they are entrusted with these decisions. >> bill: nice to have you, bill. see where it goes when the judge decides. bill mcgurn, "wall street journal," thank you. ♪ >> bill: now, dana, did you sing that in a karaoke event any time? 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>> demand for childcare surges as workers return to the office. daycare workers have not returned in full force. government data shows the country has only about 92% of the daycare workers it had before the pandemic. now day-care centers must increase pay to attract the workers. currently the average pay is $19.95 an hour in june. that's up 4.6% from a year ago according to government data. those costs are passed on to parents. watch here. >> you cannot pay the teachers anything less than $15 an hour. none of that $11 or $9 working for a childcare provider. especially going back to inflation. we have to spike up our rates in order to meet the demand >> pandemic assistance available to the childcare providers is getting ready to go away next month. some day-care centers tell us the costs they charge to parents might go up more. >> dana: they will have to charge more. a big problem. thanks for explaining it to all of us. we want to get to this woman, danielle from minnesota. she has been dealing with a heck of a lot because she is a mother of three. she lives in minnesota. you have an 8-year-old, 6-year-old and 18 months. so we asked lydia to do the story because anecdotally i knee from friends and younger people i mentor this is a big issue. tell us your experience with childcare. >> i would echo a lot of what the people in the video just quoted as well. it's certainly the highest portion of our monthly income goes towards childcare expenses. we've seen some of the increases certainly. and yeah, have to be really smart about our finances and budget and cut back in areas that we wish we could do more things but our budget simply doesn't allow it right now. >> dana: you probably have to make some tough choices overall in terms of what you are spending. also do you have enough options for daycare? are you satisfied with the opportunity that you have there? >> well, yeah. there is a very high demand. i mentioned to people in the past our 18-month-old has been at four different providers and she is only 18 months old because we didn't have long-term secure placements for her. we recently found one we are hoping to be a good long-term fit. very high demand. our kids right now for summer care are in three different spots because we didn't get in at the one place we had hoped to. >> dana: you also, i imagine, are thinking about saving for college, right? so there is a lot of pressures on the parents. as i understand it, previous employer you had the opportunity to put pre-tax dollars into an account that could help you pay for childcare. >> yeah. that was really nice. it was a great benefit. we had at my former employer we had the option to contribute to a childcare fsa pre-tax so that money could be designated for childcare services, even summer care and day camps and things like that. so it really helped to know that we had that additional money set aside. >> dana: i assume you have a lot of other mom friends. are they going through something similar? do some think they would need to leave the workforce to take care of the kids at home? >> yeah. i know people that have gotten different jobs, whether that's more flexible work from home jobs so that they don't have to do the wrap around before and after school care. or yeah, i mean i have considered it even. especially when we had our third child. and having to think about paying for three kids in childcare. but it was just -- i enjoy going to work, being a working parent and paying a stay-home mom wasn't in the cards for me. >> dana: i hear you. we're showing pictures of your beautiful family and you are not alone, right? a lot of moms are dealing with this and childcare providers are as well. there is a supply and demand problem. we need more supply. maybe we need the government to get out of the way a little bit to try to make it easier on everyone. danielle, thank you for joining us today. >> yeah, absolutely. thank you for having me. >> bill: she has a story and she is not alone. jason aldean move over. a new star on the music charts. why oliver anthony's song is sticking a cord for a lot of people. ♪ pay off your car loan, consolidate your debt with a va home loan from from newday. we, the moms who have lost our children to social media harms. we, we, we have had enough. our politicians have failed. working for lobbyists, not us. we need your voice to pass the kids online safety act this fall. join us. join us. join us. join us. 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"the faulkner focus" top of the hour. ♪ it's a shame what's the world's gotten to, people like me, people you. if i could just wake up and have it not be true, but it is, oh, it is ♪ . >> dana: oliver anthony becoming an overnight sensation rocketing to the top of the charts and talking to fox over the weekend granting his first public interview. madison has more on his music and message. >> it shows how many people feel the exact same way that he does. many have dubbed his song richmen north of richmond a blue collar anthem. he wants to share his song and music with everyone. watch. >> if we continue on the path we're going down now, culturally we won't have a country very long. what i really want in the bigger scheme of things is just people to start appreciating each other for human beings and look beyond things. making everyone identify each other's differences and not similarities. >> anthony lives in a trailer now has a number one hit song bumping artists like taylor swift and jason aldean down. the song already has tens of millions of views on youtube. as of today over 14 million streams on spotify. each of the streams adds more to his wallet. he says the song isn't just about one group being left behind. he speaks to all americans who feel that the power of the dollar is shrinking. just listen to the fans who showed up at his show over the weekend. some traveling hours just to see him in person. >> all the way through. it's time for them to hear us. >> nobody wants to hear the truth and here we have somebody who will speak it. >> thousands of people showed up for the free concert. he has gotten so much attention, fame and offers. what he really wants is none of that. he wants people to come together. >> bill: wow. i don't know if he will get his wish in this day-to-day. did he pass up millions? >> supposedly he had a multi-million dollar for a record deal. he says he is nothing special. we need more of that for leaders in government and music. people there just to share their art is what they need. >> dana: give him a moment to think about it. he seems like a smart, wise person. >> bill: thank you. stand by. before we go, did you know what was going on here? a new course record in his comeback victory over the weekend. check it out. south of chicago. he was not in contention until the final round. he caught fire in the last nine holes. seven birdies, finished with a record 61. won the tournament. how about that dana and madison? how do you score that? >> dana: can he play pickleball? >> that's good golf. that's all i have to say about that. >> dana: harris faulkner will take it from here. >> harris: we begin with a fox news alert. the ceremonial beginning to election season. it's on. there is big talk around who will be at the debate 48 hours from now. what they will say and why they think americans should choose them when they cast their vote 15 months from now. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." again today so far eight candidates have met all thre